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Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt
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Wm. Haslett
William Carew Hazlitt
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A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.
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A wise traveler never despises his own country.
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A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.
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That which is not, shall never be that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident.
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To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.
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First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or actions. A man's look is the work of years, it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.
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One said a tooth drawer was a kind of unconscionable trade, because his trade was nothing else but to take away those things whereby every man gets his living.
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Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust hatred alone is immortal.
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What I mean by living to one's self is living in the world, as in it, not of it.
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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.
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Whatever interests is interesting.
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The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.
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We would willingly, and without remorse, sacrifice not only the present moment, but all the interval (no matter how long) that separates us from any favorite object.
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